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My fellow Angelenos,,,,, what happened to your minds www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

Yeah I like waymo. Waymo public transit, bike lanes and benches!

Damn did not expect Halle Berry coming in off the top rope against Newsom, this rocks

every time i see that water tower i remember the animaniacs are trapped in there by david zaslav. Yet every story leaves it out

recession indicator

They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.

I'm supposed to see this and then, what, just go on with my day? what the fuck?

An easy way to get yourself to use less social media but — because we wouldn’t want to disrupt the equilibrium — still feel completely insane is to rearrange all your app icons. Sure, I feel like I don’t know where I am, but I’m also not looking at Instagram

just making sure you saw this

There are enough good comics out there that we don't need to platform a guy who already got a shot and blew it because he was a sex pest and a piece of shit

It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.

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i don’t care if you can convict. As soon as we have the House, the sole business of the House should be impeaching the President. and when the impeachment fails in the Senate, the next thing the House should do is impeach him again

Me and Griffin Newman nerding WAY out on Avatar? Yes, I know you’re thankful

16-year-old American Mohammed Ibrahim has been released after over 9 months in an Israeli prison without trial. I was relieved to hear from his family today and to know that he’s safe and where he belongs — with his family.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

This also goes for your Substack, your pitch deck, all the places where you’re just using a little bit of harmless or supposedly temporary generative A.I.

Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup

OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8

It’s pronounced Christmas jifts

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Respectfully, and with the fervent desire to one day feel that high again: not even close

Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ? TRUMP: I would. I really would.

Gmail users!! They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off. Pass it on!! www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Our Prestige Junkie Pundits think the best director race is basically set at the top, with Paul Thomas Anderson and Chloé Zhao appearing on 96 percent of ballots. The real suspense: who will claim the fifth spot prestigejunkieafterparty.substack.com/p/reunion-my...

List of losers 👇 www.newsweek.com/full-list-of...

As I was cutting out Donald Trump for the art on this story, I couldn't help but wonder … Does the president of the United States tie his own shoes? theankler.com/p/the-elliso...

I LOVE it when (white) men take credit for women’s work. IT IS SO COOL.

for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...

Need a whistle? Take a whistle! All we ask is don't blow it near us. They're very shrill! 🤪

Watching The Chair Company and getting mad at how he’s setting up a spreadsheet

Every YouTube video about how easy it is to replace windshield wiper inserts is a DAMN LIE

My hair will look insane until further notice

In this paragraph, we have a heartbreakingly bleak portrait of American society as it actually exists.

Climate effects aside, just the sheer scale of our emissions are astounding. Humanity makes more CO2 every year than all other materials we produce combined

explained that police have no duty to protect people because their only job is to protect property rights, and an order of protection was "not the sort of 'entitlement' out of which a property interest is created." The right to be protected from harm by police, wrote Scalia,

Getting annoyed listening to charter school activists lie again and again that charter schools are public schools. They are not. They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.

Yes let's put these things on the 10 and the 405. Waymo sucks and they're nothing more than surveillance cop cars posing as taxis that run over bodega cats

Very excited that our new newsletter (that I am proud to say I named 😏), a collab with @letterboxd.social called Crowd Pleaser is out now! Along with the visual branding for the project, I made a lil animation of Matthew Frank's road trip across the country visiting 58(!) different movie theaters. 🍿

Senate Republicans now say they’re open to extending a ACA funding IF Democrats agree to stricter abortion restrictions on insurance plans. This is why you don't negotiate with terrorists.

As if I didn’t already dislike them enough, as if it wasn’t already clear how much of a scam they are, I am now getting spam texts from LA charter schools telling me to apply to secure my (nonexistent) child’s spot for the 2026-27 school year. Astounding levels of Bad Society Gets Worse

How much did your insurance premiums increase this year? Please add your story to the incredibly unscientific survey. forms.gle/DX4pD29sibCB...

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Raya keeps telling me to tap to find singles from my hometown (what? why?) and when I tap it, none of the men are from that town. Anyway, guess I’ll keep giving this app $25/month until I die

democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up